US stocks (^DJI, ^IXIC, ^GSPC) are largely flat at Wednesday's market open as investors continue to price in their interest rate expectations and the size of rate cuts to come from the Federal Reserve later today.

Morning Brief host Brad Smith checks out the morning's index and sector movements, while Yahoo Finance markets and data editor Jared Blikre eyes the trends in market volatility (^VIX) seen this week.

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This post was written by Luke Carberry Mogan.